All the happy children in the Glendale Unified School District will soon be out of school for the summer. Looking forward to sleeping in, playing outside with friends, going to the pool or perhaps to the beach.

I read on the front page of last Sunday’s News-Press that representatives from the Flat Earth Society visited a recent meeting of the Glendale school board to urge a return to the dark ages. How else to explain comparing the use of Wi-Fi in school...

I read the article in the Thursday, Nov. 14 edition of the Glendale News-Press regarding the alarm of some parents at the Glendale School District’s use of wireless routers in classrooms (“Group signals Wi-Fi angst.”).
This issue comes...

In a world gone crazy, teetering on the brink of economic chaos, with thousands dying every day at the hands of rogue governments, wars being fought over precious natural resources and the young losing hope in the future, you have to wonder how smart...

I’d like to see in the near term a review of the current policy the city has for community notification in R-1 zones where major improvements are planned using the city's easement rights for erecting/construction of wireless transmission facilities....

It is a matter of when, not if. That was the message Thursday at Providence High School in Burbank, where representatives of Chile's emergency services division joined local and state officials for a simulated earthquake response.
The drill was in conjunction with the statewide event, the Great California Shakeout.
Now in its third year, the Shakeout included 7.9 million participants at businesses, schools and hospitals up and down the state, the largest such drill in the United States, said Mark...

Impermanence. Though it creeps up on us silently, change has a habit of striking in the moment. Like the long-building earthquake that jolts us from sleep; or seasons that argue thunderously with wild temperature fluctuations before one relents.
Little ones' pants, yesterday scraping the ground, are Capri length today. Apples and peanut butter, last week's favorite snack, this week conjure upturned noses and gagging sounds. And my daughters must now bend low to see themselves in a mirror that was not...

Before school resumes in August, Burbank Unified officials plan to expand wireless Internet access at three schools where most classrooms offer students just one spot to log on.
New cables will be installed in the ceilings at Burbank Adult School, Stevenson Elementary and Jordan Middle School, and new wireless devices will be mounted to allow Internet access for teachers and students from nearly anywhere on campus, according to Charles Poovakan, director of information technology and educational...